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Mate Choice and Personality in the Swordtail Fish Xiphophorus birchmanni
(2012-04-23)
Mate choice behavior underlies many significant phenomena in biology including sexual conflict, selection, hybridization and speciation. Members of the genus Xiphophorus provide an excellent model for studying these processes ...
Role of Galectin in the regulation of neural excitability by Drosophila Sialyltransferase
(2012-05-03)
Galectins belong to a family of endogenous lectins with affinity for β-galactosidase-containing oligosaccharides. They are differentially expressed by several types of cells of the immune system in vertebrate organisms. ...
CHARACTERIZATION OF MICRO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF GRANULAR MATERIALS BASED ON THE USE OF 3D-T IMAGERY AND DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELING
(2012-05-07)
This study analyzes the effects of varying conditions for the assessment of micro-parameters of granular materials based on both laboratory and numerical experiments. The aim is to investigate the effects of varying ...
A STUDY OF PROPERTIES OF TYPE IA SUPERNOVA AND THE CALIBRATION OF MULTIBAND PHOTOMETRY
(2012-04-27)
The peak luminosity of Type Ia Supernova (SN) can be calibrated using a distance independent luminosity parameter called the decline rate parameter (?m15 (B) to get accurate distances to the galaxies. The photometry gathered ...
Medial-Axis Biased Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees
(2012-05-09)
RRTs (Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees) have shown wide applications in robotics.
RRTs are a type of sampling-based motion planners
that expand to fill the space starting from one or more root configurations.
RRTs are excellent ...
Deciphering the Effect of Nemaline-Myopathy Nebulin Mutations on Desmin Binding
(2012-07-11)
Our research focuses on the role of intermediate proteins in human disease. Desmin, a
major intermediate filament protein in muscle cells, is organized into a central coiledcoil
alpha helical domain flanked by globular ...
Cytoprotective Effects of Dietary Fatty Acids on Oxidative Stress in Hepatocytes
(2012-07-11)
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease or NAFLD is characterized by the accumulation of fat
in the liver, also known as steatosis. This is one of the most common types of liver
diseases and can occur in a range of individuals. ...
Learning and Applying Health Disparity Education through Texas TEKS Curriculum
(2012-07-11)
As the US population grows in diversity, so has the number of health disparities. Health disparities continue to affect a large portion of the minority population resulting in negative health outcomes. Education remains a ...
Relationships of Light Transmission, Stratification and Fluorescence in the Hypoxic Region of the Texas-Louisiana Shelf in Spring/Summer 2009
(2012-07-11)
The growth of phytoplankton in hypoxic waters requires nutrients and light. In river plumes of the coastal ocean, river borne surface nutrient concentrations decrease with distance from the river mouth. Light availability ...
Measuring Nighttime Atmospheric Opacity Using Images From the Mars Exploration Rovers
(2012-07-11)
Atmospheric opacity, otherwise known as optical depth, is the measurement of the amount of radiation reaching the surface through the atmosphere. The spatial and temporal patterns in optical depth tell us about the aerosol ...