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Title: Why does no one in my books look like me? Tobe and ongoing questions about race, representation, and identity
Author: Stokes, Quesinberry Ashli
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Black people--Race identity, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Description: Originally published in 1939, Tobe is a children's book portraying the daily lives of an African American boy and his siblings on a small farm in rural North Carolina. The book was written by a white woman, Stella Sharpe Gentry, and illustrated by...

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: 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: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Author: Hartley, A. J. (Andrew James), Freidline, Noel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Plays (Shakespeare, William), Twelfth night (Shakespeare, William), Comedy plays
Description: Twelfth Night director: Andrew Hartley. Twelfth Night music director/composer: Noel Freidline. Contributors: Hessy Sanders (dramaturg), Christopher Berry (voice and speech coach), Allison Amidei (costume design), Gordon Olsen (lighting and scenic ...

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: 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: 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: The impact of reading and writing during the Siege of Sarajevo
Author: Ornat Bitting, Natalie
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Books and reading, Writing
Description: In the spring of 1992, the city of Sarajevo was surrounded by nationalist Serb troops and bombarded with shells, bullets, and terror for four long years. Isolated from the world, Sarajevans found a refuge and a freedom that took them beyond their ...

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: 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: 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: Process mapping for assessment and collaboration in libraries
Author: Ornat Bitting, Natalie
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Reengineering (Management)
Description: Commonly used in the business world, process mapping is the practice of gathering information on a specific workflow and diagramming it visually, usually in the form of a flowchart. This visual can than be analyzed for process improvement. Besides...

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: Miss Bonnie's Nurses : the first fifty years of nursing at UNC Charlotte
Author: Newman, Ann Mabe, Haney, Harton Dona
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Nurses, Nursing schools--Alumni and alumnae
Description: Miss Bonnie’s Nurses: The First Fifty Years of Nursing at UNC Charlotte traces the history of the school to its position today as the premier choice for providing the highest quality of nursing education with a commitment to community engagement i...

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: 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: 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: 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 ...

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 ...