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Title: High throughput nonparametric probability density estimation
Author: Jacobs, Donald J., Farmer, Jenny
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Probabilities
Description: In high throughput applications, such as those found in bioinformatics and finance, it is important to determine accurate probability distribution functions despite only minimal information about data characteristics, and without using human subje...

Title: Rectangular Hermite non-uniformly correlated beams and its propagation properties
Author: Gbur, Greg, Yu, Jiayi, Cai, Yangjian
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: We introduce a new class of non-uniformly correlated beams that are called rectangular Hermite non-uniformly correlated (RHNUC) beams, which possess rectangular symmetry in their degree of coherence. It is shown that, in free space and in turbulen...

Title: Propagation properties of Hermite non-uniformly correlated beams in turbulence
Author: Gbur, Greg, Yu, Jiayi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: We study the propagation properties (intensity, degree of coherence and scintillation) of a new class of beams in a turbulent atmosphere, which are called Hermite non-uniformly correlated (HNUC) beams. The results show that the beams not only have...

Title: Critical impact of vegetation physiology on thecontinental hydrologic cycle in response toincreasing CO2
Author: Scheff, Jacob
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Climatic changes, Earth sciences
Description: Predicting how increasing atmospheric CO2 will affect the hydro-logic cycle is of utmost importance for a range of applications rang-ing from ecological services to human life and activities. A typical perspective is that hydrologic change is driv...

Title: Micelle-assisted strategy for the direct synthesis of large-sized mesoporous platinum catalysts by vapor infiltration of a reducing agent
Author: Xu, Jun, Li, Yunqi, Liu, Yuwei, Yamauchi, Yusuke
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Metals, Mechanical engineering
Description: Stable polymeric micelles have been demonstrated to serve as suitable templates for creating mesoporous metals. Herein, we report the utilization of a core-shell-corona type triblock copolymer of poly(styrene-b-2-vinylpyridine-b-ethylene oxide) an...

Title: Dynamic behaviour of core-shell structured Si nanoparticles during lithiation/delithiation cycling at dynamic loadings
Author: Xu, Jun, Gao, Xiang, Yuan, Chunhao
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Materials--Dynamic testing, Mechanical engineering
Description: Dynamic behaviours of the core-shell structured (CSS) Si nanoparticles during electrochemical cycling were modelled. A core-shell-structured model that contained Si nanoparticles wrapped with amorphous carbon (a-C) was established. The system was ...

Title: Cell-specific cis-natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) in the sperm and the pollen vegetative cells of Arabidopsis thaliana
Author: Loraine, Ann, Qin, Peng, McCormick, Sheila
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Pollen
Description: Background: cis-NATs (cis-natural antisense transcripts ) are transcribed from opposite strands of adjacent genes and have been shown to regulate gene expression by generating small RNAs from the overlapping region. cis-NATs are important for plan...

Title: The value of peer leaders in active learning
Author: Looby, Kimberly, Green, Courtney, Ramaprasad, Harini, Strahm, Brett, Zenarosa, Gabriel
Date Created: 2018
Description: This poster was created as part of the Active Learning Academy at UNC Charlotte for the school year 2018-2019. The poster emphasizes the roles of having peer leaders in various departments and courses on campus and the value they bring to their fe...

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: Current perspectives of telomerase structure and function in eukaryotes with emerging views on telomerase in human parasites
Author: Chakrabarti, Kausik, Dey, Abhishek
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Evolution (Biology)
Description: Replicative capacity of a cell is strongly correlated with telomere length regulation. Aberrant lengthening or reduction in the length of telomeres can lead to health anomalies, such as cancer or premature aging. Telomerase is a master regulator f...

Title: The role of socioeconomic and climatic factors in the spatio-temporal variation of human rabies in China
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Public health, Rabies
Description: Background: Rabies is a significant public health problem in China. Previous spatial epidemiological studies have helped understand the epidemiology of animal and human rabies in China. However, quantification of effects derived from relevant fact...

Title: Postproduction focus groups in dance: a case study and protocol
Author: Huskey, Sybil, Latulipe, Celine
Date Created: 2018
Description: This case study looks at the use of focus groups as a reflective pedagogical tool in a collaborative project at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The study involved the DanceDraw project, a collaboration between choreographers and com...

Title: Tracking a serial killer : integrating phylogenetic relationships, epidemiology, and geography for two invasive meningococcal disease outbreaks
Author: Janies, Daniel, Galac, Madeline R., Kilianski, Andrew
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Biology
Description: Background While overall rates of meningococcal disease have been declining in the United States for the past several decades, New York City (NYC) has experienced two serogroup C meningococcal disease outbreaks in 2005-2006 and in 2010-2013. The o...

Title: Changing of the genomic pattern of Salmonella enteritidis strains isolated in Brazil over a 48 year-period revealed by whole genome SNP analyses
Author: Janies, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Salmonella
Description: Salmonella Enteritidis became the main serovar isolated from gastroenteritis cases in Brazil after the 90's. In this study we used whole genome sequence analysis to determine the phylogenetic relationships among a collection of strains isolated in...

Title: DNA extraction method plays a significant role when defining bacterial community composition in the marine invertebrate Echinometra mathaei
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Ketchum, Remi, Carrier, Tyler J.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Bacteria, Biology
Description: The microbial assemblages of marine organisms play fundamental biological roles in their eukaryotic hosts. Studies aimed at characterizing this diversity have increased over the last decade and with the availability of high-throughput sequencing, ...

Title: Convergent shifts in host-associated microbial communities across environmentally elicited phenotypes
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Carrier, Tyler J.
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Evolution (Biology), Biology
Description: Morphological plasticity is a genotype-by-environment interaction that enables organisms to increase fitness across varying environments. Symbioses with diverse microbiota may aid in acclimating to this variation, but whether the associated bacter...

Title: Selection and utility of single nucleotide polymorphism markers to reveal fine-scale population structure in human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lo, Eugenia, Ford, Anthony
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been shown to be useful in revealing population structure with continental-and regional-scale samples. In epidemiological study, a careful selection of SNPs to track disease spread in local communities w...

Title: Integration of phylogenomics and molecular modeling reveals lineage-specific diversification of toxins in scorpions
Author: Janies, Daniel, Rush, Nathaniel, Witter, Zachary, Williams, John
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: Scorpions have evolved a variety of toxins with a plethora of biological targets, but characterizing their evolution has been limited by the lack of a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of scorpion relationships grounded in modern, genome-scale...

Title: Venomix : a simple bioinformatic pipeline for identifying and characterizing toxin gene candidates from transcriptomic data
Author: Janies, Daniel, Reitzel, Adam M., Macrander, Jason
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Genomics, Biology
Description: The advent of next-generation sequencing has resulted in transcriptome-based approaches to investigate functionally significant biological components in a variety of non-model organism. This has resulted in the area of venomics: a rapidly growing ...

Title: First detection of Anopheles stephensi Liston, 1901 (Diptera: culicidae) in Ethiopia using molecular and morphological approaches
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lopez, Karen
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Malaria is a major public health concern in Ethiopia. With the increase in malaria cases in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, understanding the distribution and identifying the species of malaria vectors is vital to public health. Here we report the ...