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High-fat diet-induced obesity alters the biophysical properties of the plasma membrane modifying colonic stem cell homeostasis
(2022-04-22)
The increasing prevalence of obesity and its associated risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) reinforces the urgent need to determine the underlying mechanisms contributing to the promotion of CRC in obese individuals. CRC is ...
Building Ships in the Late 17th-Century France: Agency, Traditional Knowledge, and Technology in Shipyards
(2022-04-22)
If modern shipbuilding calls for engineers, computer software for 3D models and calculations, it represents a recent take on what is needed for ship construction. Until the 19th-century, ship construction in Europe was ...
Quantifying the Impact of Speech Intelligibility on Task Performance via Physiological Signals
(2022-05-16)
Background noise can potentially cause dissatisfaction, stress, and reduced performance in the workplace. One type of background noise comes from background discussions. Many studies in the literature exist on the effects ...
Metatranscriptome Analysis of Phytoplankton Communities in Response to Hurricane Harvey
(2022-04-20)
Hurricanes influence microplankton communities through many processes including mixing of the water column, changing community structure, and changing nutrient availability. In August of 2017, Hurricane Harvey inundated ...
Strategies for Controlling Physicochemical Characteristics of Nanomaterials Toward Personalized Medicine
(2022-03-01)
Nanomedicine holds great potential for effective treatment against life-threatening diseases by providing efficient transport and controlled release of significant quantities of therapeutic agents to the target sites of ...
Design Techniques for High-Speed Multi-Carrier Wireline Receivers
(2022-03-29)
The explosion in network traffic driven by cloud computing and wireless data usage necessitates serial I/O operate at higher data rates. The per-channel I/O data rate is projected over 100Gb/s due to packaging technology ...
The Impact of Digital Readiness, Teaching Methods, and Instructor Feelings and Experiences on Student Self-Directed Learning in Virtual Course Modalities During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Investigation of Community College Faculty Perceptions
(2022-04-20)
The Covid-19 pandemic in the Spring 2020 semester heralded unprecedented changes to higher education institutions. Most colleges and universities across the globe moved to emergency remote or synchronous online courses for ...
Optimal Electric Power Take-Off Strategy for Surface Riding Wave Energy Converters
(2022-04-13)
Wave energy has been proven to be a significant source of renewable energy. The surface riding wave energy converter (SR-WEC) is a novel approach to capturing wave energy in small and intermediate scales. This approach ...
The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Evaluation of Phage for Targeted Microbiome Engineering
(2022-01-17)
The microbiome is closely linked with immune homeostasis and various disease states. Chronic inflammatory diseases such as environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are associated with ...
Towards the Application of a Machine Learning Framework for Building Life Cycle Energy Assessment
(2022-04-18)
Nearly half of the global annual energy supply is consumed by buildings in their construction, operation, and maintenance, indicating an enormous potential to minimize the carbon footprint. During its life cycle, a building ...