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Title: “Protoplasm feels": the role of physiology in Charles Sanders Peirce's evolutionary metaphysics
Author: Pearce, Trevor
Subjects--Topical: Philosophy, Metaphysics
Description: This essay is an attempt to explain why Charles Sanders Peirce’s evolutionary metaphysics would not have seemed strange to its original 1890s audience. Building on the pioneering work of Andrew Reynolds, I will excavate the scientific context of P...

Title: “Making peace” with bodies and sexual selves : changes during COVID-19 among adults in the United States
Author: Bowling, Jessamyn, Basinger, Erin, Montanaro, Erika
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Body image
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the physical and mental health of many and has necessitated widespread societal shifts, including changes to work and family activities. These changes have impacted individuals’ identity, including the...

Title: “It just feels right” : perceptions of the effects of community connectedness among trans individuals
Author: Bowling, Jessamyn, Barker, Jordan, Lace, Tatim, Gunn, Laura
Subjects--Topical: Transgender people, Mental health
Description: Trans individuals (e.g. trans men and women, non-binary, gender fluid) are at higher risk for mental health concerns, in part due to marginalization. Previous work has documented the effects of social support and community engagement on health out...

Title: Work disability in the United States, 1968–2015 : Prevalence, duration, recovery, and trends
Author: Laditka, James, Laditka, Sarah B.
Subjects--Topical: People with disabilities, Labor supply
Description: The United States workforce is aging. At the same time more people have chronic conditions, for longer periods. Given these trends the importance of work disability, physical or nervous problems that limit a person’s type or amount of work, is inc...

Title: Why hasn’t the gifted label caught up with science?
Author: Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Jolly, Jennifer
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Gifted children--Education, Special education
Description: The development of both special education and gifted education as fields of study were closely tied to the origins of intelligence testing in the early 20th century. While special education’s terminology has become more nuanced and circumspect ove...

Title: Who put the "secular" in "secular state"?
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 1999
Subjects--Topical: Islam, Secularism
Description: In this essay I hope to add an anthropological voice to the conversation about political Islam, one which seeks its context not in relation to some underdefined “non-political” or “traditional” or “pure” Islam, whatever those might look like, but ...

Title: Violence and the rhetoric of images
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Subjects--Topical: Egypt, Terrorism, Photography, Semiotics
Description: This article is about the politics of visual representation, specifically about how the documentary photograph can be used to mobilize collectivities. Images become the medium for transnational political contests in which opposing groups mobilized...

Title: Vibration-based damage detection with uncertainty quantification by structural identification using nonlinear constraint satisfaction with interval arithmetic
Author: Whelan, Matthew, Kernicky, Timothy, Al-Shaer, Ehab
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Structural health monitoring, Vibration--Data processing
Description: Structural identification has received increased attention over recent years for performance-based structural assessment and health monitoring. Recently, an approach for formulating the finite element model updating problem as a constraint satisfa...

Title: Using superoscillations for superresolved imaging and subwavelength focusing
Author: Gbur, Greg
Subjects--Topical: Fluctuations (Physics)
Description: It is now well-appreciated that a bandlimited wave can possess oscillations much more rapidly than those predicted by the bandlimit itself, in a phenomenon known as superoscillation. Such superoscillations are required to be of dramatically smalle...

Title: Using mobile technology to promote safe sex and sexual health in adolescents : current practices and future recommendations
Author: Cornelius, Judith, Appiah, Josephine
Subjects--Topical: Sexual health, Cell phones
Description: Youth and young adults (19-24 years of age) shoulder the burden of sexually transmitted infections accounting for nearly half of all new infections annually. Mobile technology is one way that we have reached this population with safer sex informat...

Title: Unique infant mortuary ritual at Salango, Ecuador, 100 BC
Author: Juengst, Sara L., Lunniss, Richard Marshall, Bythell, Abigail A., Ortiz Aguilú, Juan José
Subjects--Topical: Funeral rites and ceremonies, Human remains (Archaeology), Infants--Mortality
Description: The human head was a potent symbol for many South American cultures. Isolated heads were often included in mortuary contexts, representing captured enemies, revered persons, and symbolic “seeds.” At Salango, a ritual complex on the central coast o...

Title: Transcriptome profiling of a beach-adapted wild legume for dissecting novel mechanisms of salinity tolerance
Author: Song, Bao-Hua, Zhang, Hengyou, Zuelsdorf, Christine, Penneys, Darin
Subjects--Topical: Plant ecology, Gene expression
Description: Strophostyles helvola is a close relative to common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) and inhabits both coastal and non-coastal regions in North America. However, the mechanism of saline adaptation in S. helvola remains unclear. A transcriptome profiling ...

Title: Towards secure and intelligent network slicing for 5G networks
Author: Salahdine, Fatima, Liu, Qiang, Han, Tao
Subjects--Topical: 5G mobile communication systems, Computer networks--Security measures
Description: Network slicing is one of the emerging technologies allowing resource sharing among different network entities in 5G networks. It enables delivering smart, critical, and multi-services with distinctive requirements transiting from network as an in...

Title: Toward reaching a consensus on the concept of power system resilience : definitions, assessment frameworks, and metrics
Author: Chowdhury, Badrul, Kaloti, Sujay
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electric power systems, Climatic changes
Description: The electric power system plays an integral part in the well-being of the modern society. Because of climate change, the ageing power system infrastructure is under threat due to the ever-increasing intensity and frequency of high-impact, low-prob...

Title: Tourism and sustainability in the evaluation of World Heritage Sites, 1980–2010
Author: Schmutz, Vaughn, Elliott, Michael A.
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: World Heritage areas, Sustainable tourism
Description: At present, there are myriad concerns about tourism and sustainability at cultural and natural world heritage sites. Based on an analysis of 811 evaluations written between 1980 and 2010 by two official advisory bodies to the World Heritage Commit...

Title: Thulium fiber laser ablation of kidney stones using an automated, vibrating fiber
Author: Fried, Nathaniel, Hall, Layton, Gonzalez, David
Subjects--Topical: Laser ablation, Kidneys--Calculi
Description: Our preliminary study investigates an automated, vibrating fiber optic tip for dusting of kidney stones during thulium fiber laser (TFL) lithotripsy. A (0.75-mm diameter and 5-mm length) magnetic bead was attached to the fiber jacket, centered 2 c...

Title: The varieties of secular experience
Author: Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Secularism, Religion
Description: Taking the Egyptian case as an example, this article examines secularism (and its cognates secularity and the secular), not so much as a failed social project, but as a problematic concept. Reflecting on the on-going scholarly interest in the noti...

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 study of COVID-19 within the state of North Carolina in the United States
Author: Alzate, Cesar, Li, Xingjie Helen
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Virus diseases--Transmission
Description: Research on COVID-19 was done for North Carolina to assess local governmental policies, to measure COVID-19 growth rate, and to discover what predictors impact COVID-19 spread. Using a Time-Delayed SIR model, removal rates were calculated to compa...

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, ...