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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 ...
Hacking the Brain: Opportunities in Soft Wireless Bioelectronics
(2018-04-24)
Traditional techniques used to determine neuron activity in cognitive function, such as penetrating or surface-mounted electrodes, severely limit the comprehensive study of the brain. Such methods confound thermal effects, ...
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 ...
Determination of Lysis Ability and Location of Suspected Tail Lysin gp156 of Phage K Against Staphylococcus aureus
(2019-04-29)
As the issue of bacterial antibiotic resistance becomes more prevalent, phage technology research attempts to investigate viruses to possibly target and kill pathogens effectively with specificity. This study is an ...
Coaxially Electrospun Nanofibers as a Drug Delivery System for Silver Ibuprofen to Surgical Site Infections
(2019-04-22)
Each year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are affected by surgical site infections (SSIs), resulting in billions of dollars spent on additional healthcare and thousands of lives lost. These SSIs are often caused by ...
Pharmacological Identification of a Calcium Release Channel in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Plants
(2018-04-25)
Whenever we contract our muscles, we do so because there is an ion channel in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) that releases calcium from within the ER in response to an action potential. Plants do not have the genes for the ...
The Role of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor on Proliferation and β-catenin Expression during Tumor Formation in Colon Epithelial Cells
(2019-04-22)
The epithelium is the main barrier to the external environment in the GI tract, and it is constantly exposed to different carcinogenic factors that could cause cancer in this layer. However, there are specific signaling ...
Effects of Lithium Chloride on Feather Damaging Behavior in Parrots
(2019-04-25)
Feather damaging behavior, the intentional removal of feathers without the biological need to do so (i.e. lining a nest, breeding display, preening), is a complex syndrome frequently seen in captive parrots. Feather damaging ...