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Title: Thermodynamic analysis of ORC and its application for waste heat recovery
Author: Javanshir, Alireza, Sarunac, Nenad, Razzaghpanah, Zahra
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Heat recovery, Sustainability
Description: The analysis and optimization of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) used as a bottoming cycle in the Brayton/ORC and steam Rankine/ORC combined cycle configurations is the main focus of this study. The results show that CO2 and air are the best workin...

Title: The traits that predict the magnitude and spatial scale of forest bird responses to urbanization intensity
Author: Paton, Grant D., Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Urbanization, Forest birds
Description: As humans continue moving to urban areas, there is a growing need to understand the effects of urban intensification on native wildlife populations. Forest species in remnant habitat are particularly vulnerable to urban intensification, but the me...

Title: The socio-ecological factors that influence the adoption of green infrastructure
Author: Tayouga, Sarah J., Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Sustainable buildings, Social ecology
Description: Green infrastructure is defined as any type of infrastructure that has the purpose of lessening the burden of development on the environment and/or has the aim of providing ecosystem services, such as runoff management, air temperature reduction, ...

Title: The single robot line coverage problem : theory, algorithms, and experiments
Author: Agarwal, Saurav, Akella, Srinivas
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Linear programming, Environmental engineering--Linear programming
Description: Line coverage is the task of servicing a given set of one-dimensional features in an environment. It is important for the inspection of linear infrastructure such as road networks, power lines, and oil and gas pipelines. This paper addresses the s...

Title: The relative effects of forest amount, forest configuration, and urban matrix quality on forest breeding birds
Author: Shoffner, Alexandra V., Wilson, Andrew M., Tang, Wenwu, Gagne, Sara A.
Subjects--Topical: Urbanization, Forest birds
Description: Urbanization modifies landscape structure in three major ways that impact avian diversity in remnant habitat: habitat amount is reduced and habitat configuration and matrix quality are altered. The relative effects of these three components of lan...

Title: The contextual characteristics of violent crime against Native American women
Author: Stanley, Michelle A.
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, Violent crimes
Description: National surveys, reports, and research articles have indicated that Native American women experience some of the highest rates of violence compared to women from other racial or ethnic groups in the United States. Despite these findings, there is...

Title: The complete mitochondrial genome of the sea urchin, Echinometra sp. EZ
Author: Ketchum, Remi, DeBiasse, Melissa B., Ryan, Joseph F., Burt, John A., Reitzel, Adam M.
Subjects--Topical: Mitochondrial DNA, Sea urchins
Description: The complete mitogenome of Echinometra sp. EZ has been described and fully annotated in this study. Phylogenetic analysis of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) from six Echinometra species confirms that our sample is E. sp. EZ. The mitogenome is...

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...

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: 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: 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: Quinones for aqueous organic redox flow battery : a prospective on redox potential, solubility, and stability
Author: Hasan, Fuead, Abdelazeez, Ahmed A., Mahanta, Vivekanada
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Quinone, Electric batteries
Description: In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the potential of quinones as a promising category of electroactive species for use in aqueous organic redox flow batteries. These materials offer tunable properties and the ability to functi...

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: 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: Multisensory integration by polymodal sensory neurons dictates larval settlement in a brainless cnidarian larva
Author: Birch, Sydney, Plachetzki, David
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Developmental biology
Description: Multisensory integration (MSI) combines information from more than one sensory modality to elicit behaviours distinct from unisensory behaviours. MSI is best understood in animals with complex brains and specialized centres for parsing different m...

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: Impact of short-term air pollution on respiratory infections : a time-series analysis of COVID-19 cases in California during the 2020 wildfire season
Author: Ademu, Lilian, Gao, Jingjing, Thompson, Onah Peter, Ademu, Lawrence Anebi
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Environmental health
Description: The 2020 California wildfire season coincided with the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic affecting many counties in California, with impacts on air quality. We quantitatively analyzed the short-term effect of air pollution on COVID-19 transmission usi...

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: 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: 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...