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Improving Innate Immunity Through Genetic Editing of the 5’ Untranslated Region of Interferon Regulatory Factor 7
(2017-04-28)Disease decreases production efficiency and kills millions of animals across all types of livestock operations every year. This is severely detrimental to both animal producers and consumers from an economic and overall ... -
Zen Routing
(2017-04-27)Driving induced stress is a problem inherent to contemporary living in urban areas. Traffic congestion, route unpredictability, and other factors cause undue stress to commuters daily. This project’s purpose is to alleviate ... -
Mailbox Letter Sensor
(2017-04-28)Many rural and transient communities rely on central mailbox services for their mail delivery. The location of the facility may present difficulty to patrons in checking their mailboxes regularly, and otherwise also result ... -
An Analysis of Women's Access to Education and Workplace Restrictions in Developed Versus Developing Countries
(2017-04-28)Gender disparity has become a topic of major discussion in developing countries in recent years, particularly in relation to the access to education and workforce restrictions. The general purpose of this research is to ... -
A Nebulizer System For Positron Emission Tomography Imaging of Aerosols and Nanoparticles for Use in Preclinical Pulmonary Drug Delivery Studies
(2017-05-09)This research project proposes to develop, integrate and characterize a nebulizer system for the nasal pulmonary delivery of radiopharmaceuticals in the form of aerosols containing nanoparticles for dynamic imaging studies ... -
Stratigraphic Variation of the Leonardian (Permian) Avalon Shale and Bone Spring Formation, Southeastern Delaware Basin, Reeves County, West Texas, U.S.A.
(2017-05-03)Stratigraphic thickness may vary as a member is deposited basinward of the shelf margin. Leonardian (Lower Permian) Avalon Shale and Bone Spring Formation strata of the southeastern region of the Delaware Basin in Reeves ... -
Vanadium Dioxide Nanocomposite Coatings as Fenestration Elements
(2017-04-28)Smart windows have attracted interest as a method of reducing the energy consumption of buildings. These smart windows would be able to reflect and transmit infrared (IR) light in response to ambient temperature, while ... -
Dehumanization in War and Combat: Rhetoric and Practice
(2017-04-24)This research addressed dehumanization in times of war by considering the discourses of veterans from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan. I will analyze sources of non-fiction and fiction literature, and interviews archived ... -
A Constraint Satisfaction Problem Approach to High-Entropy Alloy Design
(2017-04-24)High-entropy alloys (HEAs) are multi-principal element alloys at near-equiatomic concentrations that can have superior properties such as high irradiation resistance, high fatigue resistance, and high temperature usage, ... -
Structural insights into the regulation of JAK3 activity: Evidence from molecular modeling of the full human JAK3 protein
(2017-04-24)JAK3 is a receptor-associated tyrosine kinase that functions as a key signal transducer within the JAK-STAT cellular signaling pathway to facilitate the production, proliferation, and differentiation of various cell types. ... -
Abrupt Climate Change in the Southern Great Plains during the Last Glacial Interval
(2017-04-27)Understanding how the climate of the North American Great Plains may change in the future is of tremendous socioeconomic importance, yet the regional response to previous abrupt global climate events, such as the ... -
Modelling of UAVs Hovering in Extreme Temperature Environments
(2017-04-27)As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become more widely available, they are being applied to an ever-widening range of tasks, especially in areas that are inaccessible or dangerous to humans. Of particular interest is the ... -
The Interaction of Debt and Monetary Policy; What Does State-Level Data Say?
(2017-04-24)I examine how monetary policy has various effects for states across the U.S. depending on the state's level of household indebtedness. Using panel regressions, I find that monetary policy has smaller stimulative effects ... -
PCL Shape Memory Scaffolds Prepared with Variable Cross-Link Density
(2017-04-28)Poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) has been previously studied as a thermoresponsive shape memory polymer (SMP) for numerous biomedical applications due to its biocompatibility and biodegradability. We have previously investigated ... -
The Study of microRNA in Plasma to Discover Biomarkers Important for Muscle Growth in Beef Cattle
(2017-05-02)Producers are constantly looking for ways to improve muscle growth in cattle such that both the quantity and quality of beef can be increased. One approach is to examine expression of microRNAs as a potential selection ... -
An Efficient Fusion Scheme for Human Hand Trajectory Reconstruction Using Inertial Measurement Unit and Kinect Camera
(2017-04-27)The turn of 21st century has witnessed an evolving trend in wearable devices research and improvements in human-computer interfaces. In such systems, position information of human hands in 3-D space has become extremely ... -
The Heteromorphism in Category Theory
(2017-04-27)We explore an alternative interpretation to the abstract mathematical subject of category theory, by examining the role of the heteromorphism, a neglected concept in the field, in elucidating central categorical notions. -
Social Media and the Changing Identity
(2017-05-03)This thesis uses former literature on orality, literacy, pluralism, and power structures and applies their theoretical framework in order to provide insight into the rhetorical impacts of social media. Specifically, Facebook ... -
Allelic Exchange of the Flagellin Gene fliC of Clositridium difficile: Generation of a Knockout Mutant
(2017-04-24)Clostridium difficile is an antibiotic-resistant Gram-positive bacterium. It has become a major concern for hospitals and acute care medical wards where antibiotics are used more readily. Therapies and preventative measures ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Microparticles for Templating Porous Shape Memory Polymer Scaffolds
(2017-04-28)Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are proposed for use in a variety of medical devices, such as neural and peripheral embolism coils for aneurysm occlusion. These “smart” materials have unique advantages over shape memory alloys, ...
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