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Title: Arabidopsis bioinformatics resources : the current state, challenges, and priorities for the future
Author: Loraine, Ann, Doherty, Colleen, Friesner, Joanna, Gregory, Brian
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Arabidopsis thaliana
Description: Effective research, education, and outreach efforts by the Arabidopsis thaliana community, as well as other scientific communities that depend on Arabidopsis resources, depend vitally on easily available and publicly-shared resources. These resour...

Title: Breaking down barriers for student parents and caregivers with family friendly library spaces
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper, Sprague, Lindsey
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, College student parents
Description: In 2016, J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte opened a reservable study room specifically for student parents and caregivers. Student parents comprise 25.6% of the total student population and this study room c...

Title: Bring your own born-digital (BYOBD) ingesting digital media when you don't have a budget
Author: Cline, Tyler
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Floppy disks
Description: When tackling born-digital records on older media, it is often necessary to utilize period hardware for transfer. This hardware is often obsolete and cannot be sourced through large centralized procurement processes at some Universities. Sometimes...

Title: Computer-assisted interpreting technologies and interpreter cognition : a product and process-oriented perspective
Author: Mellinger, Christopher D. (Christopher Davey)
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Translating and interpreting, Translating services
Description: Research on technology-enabled and technology-mediated interpreting to date has taken a largely product-oriented approach to understand the role of technology during interpreting. In response to calls for additional empirical research on the inter...

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: Diel patterning in the bacterial community associated with the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Leach, Whitney B., Carrier, Tyler J.
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Biology
Description: Microbes can play an important role in the physiology of animals by providing essential nutrients, inducing immune pathways, and influencing the specific species that compose the microbiome through competitive or facilitatory interactions. The com...

Title: Editorial for the special issue on nucleic acid architectures for therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and materials
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Halman, Justin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry

Title: Effect of local norms on racial and ethnic representation in gifted education
Author: Matthews, Michael S., 1968-, Peters, Scott J., Rambo-Hernandez, Karen, Plucker, Jonathan A.
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education--Research, Gifted children--Education, Racism in schools
Description: Educators have sought to understand and address the disproportional representation of students from certain student subgroups in gifted education. Most gifted identification decisions are made with national comparisons where students must score ab...

Title: Effect of privatization and inland infrastructural development on India's container port selection dynamics
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Subramanian, Kailas Venkita
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Privatization--Economic aspects, Shipment of goods
Description: In this study, we present insights on how the privatization of Indian ports is altering the market share of containerized shipments across two key Industrial corridors of India. Using bill of lading dataset, we implement a binary multi-level discr...

Title: First step towards larger DNA-based assemblies of fluorescent silver nanoclusters: template design and detailed characterization of optical properties
Author: Afonin, Kirill A., Shevchenko, Oleg
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Nucleic acids, Chemistry
Description: Besides being a passive carrier of genetic information, DNA can also serve as an architecture template for the synthesis of novel fluorescent nanomaterials that are arranged in a highly organized network of functional entities such as fluorescent ...

Title: Frequent expansion of Plasmodium vivax Duffy Binding Protein in Ethiopia and its epidemiological significance
Author: Janies, Daniel, Lo, Eugenia, Kepple, Daniel
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communicable diseases, Malaria
Description: Plasmodium vivax invasion of human erythrocytes depends on the Duffy Binding Protein (PvDBP) which interacts with the Duffy antigen. PvDBP copy number has been recently shown to vary between P. vivax isolates in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, the ex...

Title: Kids these days won't answer the phone : generations in context
Author: Looby, Kimberly
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Conflict of generations
Description: Presented at Diversity Day at UNC Charlotte, February 28, 2019 This poster aims to reduce generational stereotypes through considering other factors such as age, the economy, technology and events and how to situation yourself within a diverse ran...

Title: Linear mitochondrial genome in Anthozoa (Cnidaria) : a case study in Ceriantharia
Author: Reitzel, Adam M., Stampar, Sergio N., Macrander, Jason
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression, Biology
Description: Sequences and structural attributes of mitochondrial genomes have played a critical role in the clarification of relationships among Cnidaria, a key phylum of early-diverging animals. Among the major lineages of Cnidaria, Ceriantharia (tube anemon...

Title: Many rice genes are differentially spliced between roots and shoots but cytokinin has minimal effect on splicing
Author: Loraine, Ann, Freese, Nowlan H., Estrada, April, Blakley, Ivory
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Gene expression
Description: Alternatively spliced genes produce multiple spliced isoforms, called transcript variants. In differential alternative splicing, transcript variant abundance differs across sample types. Differential alternative splicing is common in animal system...

Title: Millennials will one day be eighty: generations in humor and context
Author: Looby, Kimberly
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Conflict of generations, Sociology, Humor, Library science
Description: Presented at the IDEAL Conference in Columbus, Ohio. August 2019. Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in Libraries and Archives Most generational workshops make an honest attempt at trying to understand unique experiences through divers...

Title: Modulation of neural activity for myelination in the central nervous system
Author: Yang, In Hong, Choi, H. Elliot, Blasiak, Agatha, Lee, Joonho
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Central nervous system, Myelination
Description: Electrical stimulation has been playing a significant role in revealing various functions and mechanisms of the nervous system. It is no different for myelination, a process in which oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS) or Schwann ...

Title: Perceptions of resilience and coping among gender-diverse individuals using photography
Author: Bowling, Jessamyn, Schoebel, Victoria, Vercruysse, Chloe
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Transgender people, Resilience (Personality trait)
Description: Gender-diverse individuals (those whose gender and/or sex differ from societal expectations, such as trans or genderqueer) face stigma and discrimination, which can translate into negative health outcomes. Resilience describes the process of overc...

Title: Predicting the upcoming services of vacant taxis near fixed locations using taxi trajectories
Author: Thill, Jean-Claude, Hu, Chunchun
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Taxicab industry, Taxicabs
Description: Emerging on-line reservation services and special car services have greatly affected the development of the taxi industry. Surprisingly, taking a taxi is still a significant problem in many large cities. In this paper, we present an effective solu...

Title: Puerto Rico as colonial palimpsest : a microhistory of translation and language policy
Author: Mellinger, Christopher D. (Christopher Davey)
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Translating and interpreting, Language policy
Description: This article presents a microhistory of Puerto Rico that investigates the role of translation and language policy during the transition from Spanish to U.S. colonial rule. Two specific periods, namely the transitional military government from 1898...

Title: Scintillation properties of a partially coherent vector beam with vortex phase in turbulent atmosphere
Author: Gbur, Greg, Yu, Jiayi, Cai, Yangjian, Huang, Yan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: We undertake a computational and experimental study of an advanced class of structured beams, partially coherent radially polarized vortex (PCRPV) beams, on propagation through atmospheric turbulence. A computational propagation model is establish...