University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The Role of Identity-Related Issues in Partisan Shifts Among White Americans, 2016–2020

ABSTRACT During the 2020 US presidential election, identity-related issues—immigration, racial justice, and white identity—were central to public discourse. This study examines how these issues shaped shifts in partisanship among white Americans who changed their affiliation from...

“New Way to Look at Shared Problems”: Team Science in Special Education Research

In special education, the complexity of serving individuals with disabilities and their families necessitates sustained interdisciplinary collaboration. However, little is known about how the principles of team science are valued and enacted within higher education programs that...

Breaking Away From Destructive Feedback: The Role of Emotion Regulation in Negative Self-Verification

People often favor self-verifying feedback which reinforces existing self-beliefs, a preference that can further entrench negative self-views. Prior work suggests that emotional responses to the prospect of receiving non-self-verifying feedback may influence whether people engage...

Substance-Specific Stigma and the Gatekeeping Role of Social Distance in Recovery Support Provision

Background: Community integration for individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) depends on the willingness of social network members to provide aid, yet the mechanisms driving this support remain poorly understood. This study evaluates how substance type and relational prox...

40 years of equity sensitivity: A theoretical and meta-analytic review of relations, roles, and remaining questions

Organizational scholars have studied equity sensitivity (ES) for nearly half a century. Yet, a lack of synthesis in the ES literature suggests important questions remain regarding our understanding of the concept, its nomological network, the theoretical role(s) it may play in sh...

Comparing language models and machine learning classifiers for detecting humorous vaccine misinformation on social media

Abstract Misinformation embedded in humor on social media can be difficult to detect and mitigate. This study investigates the effectiveness of traditional machine learning (ML) models, pre-trained neural language models, and large language models (LLMs) in identifying humor-lade...

Occlusion-Aware Ground Target Tracking by a Dubins Vehicle Using Visibility Volumes

This paper considers the problem of tracking a point of interest (POI) moving along a known trajectory on the ground with an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) modeled as a Dubins vehicle using a line-of-sight sensor through an urban environment that may occlude the POI. A visibility...

Winning and losing experiences differentially alter learning performance and forebrain protein expression in mangrove rivulus killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus

Contest outcomes alter future social behavior, but whether and how a single win or loss influences non-social learning-task performance and triggers rapid forebrain molecular responses remains unclear. The self-fertilizing mangrove rivulus killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus , off...

Hybrid/collision ameloblastoma-ameloblastic fibroma: a case with molecular features supporting a tumor-in-tumor model

Hybrid/collision odontogenic tumors are a rare and controversial phenomenon not formally recognized as a distinct category in the WHO Classification of Head and Neck Tumors and their diagnosis relies mainly on histomorphology. This report presents a unique mandibular odontogenic...

The impact of household-level ACEs on future pregnancy loss: evidence from the 2022–2023 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)

Abstract Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have far-reaching health implications throughout an individual’s lifespan. However, their impact on pregnancy loss (PL) remains elusive. Very few studies have examined this association for a specific class of ACEs. This pap...

Compressor-Aware Feature Analysis and Learning-Based Performance Prediction for Scientific Data Compression

High-fidelity scientific instruments and simulations are producing data at unprecedented volumes and rates, imposing substantial pressure on storage, transmission, and analysis. In order to alleviate the challenges brought to highperformance computing I/O and storage, compression...

Building Community to Bridge Research and Practice: The North Carolina Chemistry Educators and Researchers (NC CER) Group

Abstract Communities of practice in chemical education provide networks for fostering collaboration, professional development, and integration of research with classroom practice. Here we describe the growth of the North Carolina Chemistry Educators and Researchers (NC CER) commu...

Numerical analysis of seismic performance of deep strutted excavation-structure interaction in sandy soil

This research investigates numerically the seismic performance of deep-braced excavation in adjacent to 10-stories building in sandy soil. Non-linear time-history analysis using hardening soil model with small strain stiffness (HS-small) is performed using PLAXIS 2D. Numerical va...

Investigating the role of simulation-based inference in fostering critical citizenship

Abstract As societies become increasingly data-rich, statistics education has an important role to play in preparing students to critically examine evidence related to complex social issues. This study reports on how a statistical investigation using traffic stop data can be desi...

Spatial Analysis of Health Care Utilization among Medicare Beneficiaries with Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis and Other Related Pneumoconiosis

Overview of Key Findings The states with the highest number of Medicare beneficiaries with coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) were Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Significant clustering of health care utilization rates for Medicare beneficiaries with CWP was...

A conserved tyrosine motif encodes a structural vulnerability controlling stability and activity across J-domain proteins

J-domain proteins (JDPs) direct Hsp70 functions through a conserved J-domain that engages and activates Hsp70. JDPs support proteostasis and are linked to development and disease, yet how they are regulated remains unclear. Here, we identify a conserved tyrosine motif outside the...

The Unsteady Aerodynamic Response of the DrivAer Fastback to Longitudinal Acceleration and Deceleration

This study examines the aerodynamic response of a DrivAer fastback model subjected to longitudinal acceleration and deceleration using a time-varying inlet-velocity approach. The accelerating, non-accelerating, and decelerating cases are compared at a common reference velocity to...

Gender History: A Necessary Key to Understanding Central Europe

Abstract Seven specialists in Central and East Central European history have come together to discuss the state of the field of gender studies in their subfields. Much emphasis is placed on thinking about how the current political situation in the 2020s is affecting what historia...

Officer sex, hegemonic masculinity and beliefs about sexual assault and other gendered violent crime within a SAKI-funded police department

Purpose Some police departments have prioritized the inclusion of female officers within special victims units (SVUs), given male officers’ higher endorsement of maladaptive beliefs towards sexual assault cases and victims (i.e. rape myths). Yet, beliefs related to rape and other...

Nonlinear Elasticity of Entangled Networks and Gels

Abstract We develop a molecular theory of the nonlinear elasticity of entangled polymer networks and gels that incorporates both strand rigidity and finite extensibility. Network strands are represented by Toeplitz chains of correlated Gaussian bonds, with the bond-correlation pa...