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Role of Lymphatics in Renal Sodium Handling: Implications for Hypertension
(2019-04-19)
Hypertension is the leading risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and strokes [1]. A portion of these patients exhibit SSHTN with high cardiovascular risk and are more difficult to pharmacologically control. The etiology ...
Lobbying Exposure and Committee Preferences in the United States Congress
(2019-04-22)
Lobbying has been an important part of the U.S. political landscape for over a century. A rich variety of literature in economics and finance has shown that lobbying efforts aimed at congressional representatives can affect ...
Development of Anti-Fouling Materials for Blood-Contacting Devices
(2019-04-25)
The safety and efficacy of blood-contacting medical devices is hindered by thrombosis upon implantation in the body. Silicones and polyurethanes (PUs) are commonly used for hemodialysis catheters and other blood-contacting ...
Impact of Polymer Architecture on PCL-DA/PLLA Semi-IPN Properties
(2019-04-26)
Cranio-maxillofacial (CMF) bone defects are most commonly treated with autografts despite their many limitations. Namely, the rigid autografts are difficult to shape and fit into complex defect geometries, resulting in ...
Trust in the Digital Age: Friends, Justice, and the Good Life
(2019-04-19)
A more complex definition of trust is required to better understand the Aristotelian virtues of friendship and justice, especially in the digital age. Within this argument, I develop and make use of two distinct notions, specific ...
Transcriptome Assembly and Characterization of the Benthic Annelid Paramphinome jeffreysii
(2019-04-23)
Species of the phylum Annelida have been essential as model organisms in the studies of biology, neurobiology, evolution, ecology, and phylogenomics. Prior work using genomics and transcriptomics has provided new insights ...
Violence, Environmental Crisis, and Human Sacrifice Among the Moche Culture
(2019-04-22)
Throughout the ancient world, there have been numerous occurrences of human sacrifice performed by ancient cultures that have been proven in the archaeological record. The scope of this research will focus on the Moche ...
The Recent Expansion of Invasive Tubastraea coccinea Throughout the Gulf of Mexico and its Relation to Oil and Gas Platforms
(2019-04-23)
Invasive species have large economic and ecological impacts, including agriculture losses, native species replacement, ecological function modification, and altered community structure. Despite this, invasive marine species ...
Novel Semi-Automatic Method to Optimize Multi-Lamp High Flux Solar Simulators
(2019-04-23)
For multi-lamp high flux solar simulators (HFSS), it is often difficult to obtain a required flux distribution by manipulating the lamp position of multiple lamps at once. Each lamp has three degree of freedom. Thus manual ...
Feasibility and Acceptability of Point-of-Care HIV Screening in Community-Based Dental Care Settings
(2019-05-20)
The dental setting is a largely untapped venue to identify patients with undiagnosed HIV infection. Yet, uptake of rapid HIV testing within the community-based dental care settings remains low. This study will seek to ...